The man-boob march exposed the depravity of trans activism

Apparently, some trans activists have decided that exposing their doughy man boobs is the best way to win hearts and minds. On Sunday, members of STRIVE (Standing for Trans Rights, Inclusion and Visibility Everywhere) marched from Marble Arch to Downing Street to protest against last month’s Supreme Court ruling, which confirmed that sex is defined as biological for the purposes of equality law. They told Pink News that the stunt was designed to be a ‘deeply symbolic act’ to show how ‘exposed and vulnerable’ trans-identified men feel now that they are no longer allowed into women’s spaces.

Front and centre of the topless tantrum was Sarah Jane (formerly Alan) Baker, a violent ex-con who served 30 years for kidnapping, torture and attempting to murder a fellow inmate. He also cut off his own testicles while in prison. On Sunday, he stood yards away from the UK prime minister’s door, yelling that so-called TERFs (ie, feminists who object to men in women’s spaces) ‘will reap what they sow’. He also said that women’s rights activists ‘should be afraid’. Given his rap sheet, they’d be daft not to be.

This, of course, isn’t the first time Baker has behaved menacingly towards feminists. At a Trans+Pride rally in 2023, he was arrested after bellowing: ‘If you see a TERF, punch them in the fucking face.’ Later, a judge suggested that Baker might have made the comment ‘for publicity’, and cleared him of encouraging the commission of an offence.

Still, some feminists have refused to be cowed, even with people like Baker howling abuse. Facing down the mob at the weekend were five brave counter-protesters – four young women and one young man, all aged between 19 and 22 years old. Student activist Connie Shaw, who held a banner that read ‘Defend Women’s Rights’, was one of them. ‘It was both thrilling and liberating to stand in defiance, as men who want to invade women’s spaces marched towards us’, she told me. ‘I truly believe they were taken aback by our youth and subsequent audacity in challenging them.’

Their quiet defiance was met with abuse. Baker dubbed them ‘tosspots’. One of his fellow activists, when asked about the young women, leered that he ‘wouldn’t mind going to bed with them’. When asked if he was sexually attracted to women, he replied: ‘I dunno. I just want to get laid.’ The trans activists could not have made the students’ point more succinctly: that the men who demand access to women’s spaces are precisely the type of creepy males who we need to guard against most.

The topless theatrics didn’t end with the Downing Street protest. On Monday, STRIVE bobbed up outside the Leeds Art Gallery, where two topless men held signs aloft reading, ‘Man?’. To which the only honest answer is: yes, you are. In Glasgow, an unconnected group of Scottish trans activists stormed the balcony of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, while others tried to block a police van.

What all this exposes – aside from a fair bit of flabby flesh – is the real power dynamic at play. When young women need cast-iron ovaries just to say that sex is real, aggressive men parade around shouting threats with impunity. It is clear who the vulnerable group is and who is dangerously entitled.

So yes, lads, keep on striving. Because nothing makes the case for ‘trans rights’ quite like a mob of men flashing their sweaty moobs and jeering at female students. You’re not proving you’re women. You’re proving exactly why women need protected spaces.

Jo Bartosch is a journalist campaigning for the rights of women and girls.